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Spoiled silk : the Red mayor and the great Paterson textile strike

"Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife, Katherine, who started a new life in the American industrial city of Paterson, New Jersey. Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve the lot of their fellow immigrants and, at the same time, to raise a family in the midst of the turbulence surrounding them. Their efforts contributed to the long-lived struggle to improve working conditions in American mills, but their dream of a socialist America was never to be realized."--Jacket.Read more...

Like Just Yesterday --
The Cedar Cliff Hotel --
The Business and the Party --
Stubborn Dutchman --
Strike in the Paterson Mills --
The Haledon Meetings Begin --
Desperation Takes Hold --
The IWW on Trial --
A Question of How You See It --
The Strike Ends --
Family Matters, Party Matters --
The War --
Good Times --
Loss --
A Visit to Morrissee Avenue --
Bad Times --
Just Not in Him --
I Had a Son --
New Family --
Sunday Walks, Sunday Mass --
Retired Now --
Things Run Down --
The Last Walk.

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This is the story of two immigrants, William and Katherine Brueckmann, who started a new life in America's first industrial city, Paterson New Jersey Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve life for fellow immigrants, but their vision of a socialist America was never realized.Read more...

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